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What did he mean by this? Will he ever be alright?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tmCQUURiY
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>>9038349
Damn - Michael Houllebeqc looks like THAT?
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>>9038349
i like that song
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>>9038349
lol that was great. i like this guy more and more each time i see something about him.
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what do I think of this chart?
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Looks like a desert landscape
Also completely wrong
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Looks like it was hastily drawn up by an 18-year-old so he could feign immense literary knowledge on a Taiwanese shadow puppet board.
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>>9038532
>18 year-old
heh
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I just finished reading Harold Bloom's Daemon and How to Read and Why.
Loved them.
Any other books about books or literary theory you guys would recommend?
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>>9038316
Weird you didn't get any replies, OP. Anyway:
->The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
->Robert Alter, "The Pleasures of Reading"
->Nabokov, "Lectures on Literature," "Lectures on Russian Literature," "Lectures on Don Quixote"
->Clenneth Brooks, "The Well-Wrought Urn"
->Paglia, "Break, Blow, Burn"
->Northrop Frye, "Anatomy of Criticism," "Fearful Symmetry"
That's a good start.
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>>9038461
Not the op but if i have read no literary theory proper, only introductory books like A Very Short Introduction to Literary Theory or Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson, will I be able to jump into something like Anatomy Of Criticism or Fearful Symmetry and get much out of it, or are there some intermediate works that are less famous? Are lecture based books simpler in general than other critical books? What is the literary theory equivalent of start with the Greeks? Poetics I know, but anything else, or anything else preceding say, the 19th century that is essential before reading more modern stuff?
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>>9038480
All of the works I named are entry-level and accessible. In "Anatomy of Criticsm," Frye basically establishes a new, autonomous framework for analyzing literature and literary eras/movements. "Fearful Symmetry," like some of the other texts I listed, is straight-up solid analysis without reliance on any sort of academic jargon or bloated theoretical lens.
>literary theory equivalent of start with the Greeks?
The Norton work. It's got Freud, Derrida, Bahktin, Plato, Eagleton, Barthes, etc.
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CRASH! MOM MADE PANCAKES!
Ballard was a hack
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One pancake remained; two, if counted holy...
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>>9038286
I would SO read this
Stephen King for SURE
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>>9038286
Wont you eat my sleazy pancakes just for saintly alphonzo
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Why are you on /lit/ and not reading a book instead?
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>>9038194
/lit/ is the greatest collective of critical minds the world has ever witnessed. Every second I spend here I feel my brain growing
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>>9038194
Being a 21st century millennial for 18 years of my life playing games, being entertained by TV and generally never having trained my concentration I am not able to sit through a book and read it for more than 10 minutes a time.
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>>9038211
This tee bee aych
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>tfw accepted for publication again
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Ebin thread.
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>>9038182
>tfw weird malformed face again
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>>9038356
>tfw no face
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Why does Lit only praise a handful of authors and dismiss the rest as writing pulp? Even when those handful of authors write long winded and at times what the majority of people feel to be boring books? Pic unrelated but I always see this in lit, with a handful of individuals saying it took them forever to read, or they might as well not bother because they will not complete it.
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They like to pretend the path to being a cultured intellectual is quick and easy.
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>>9038162
everybody does that. theirs too many books in the world and this isn't music where each album takes 30-60minutes to finish combined with the fact majority here don't read. you get stuck with the same couple guys in rotation
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agreeing is easier than disagreeing
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reminder that literature = entertainment and if you claim otherwise you're kidding yourself
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>>9038109
White dude lookin like a pedophile, who's surprised?
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Talking to people who believe books make you a better person feels like talking to highschoolers
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Can someone make the bee movie in sonnet form?
I'd like to use for sonnet reading we have tomorrow. Preferable start with first line of movie, improvise rest. Will let y'all know how it turns out
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>>9038103
lol so randum xD
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Memes like this are the reason /pol/ won.
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I just came from anal while watching blacked.
AMA
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>>9038056
I audibly laughed at the title, have a reddit gold
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was it blissful?
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>>9038089
I felt pretty good after. Huge dopamine rush. Do you know the feeling when you get just the right amount of lube and everything just glides? Heavenly.
I timed my orgasm to coincide with the black guy cumming in the naive white girl's pussy.
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Wah
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Haruhi Suzumiya truly is quality literature. An intricate series comparable to the works of joyce or proust.
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>>9038858
there probably exists some autist on /a/ who actually believes this
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>>9038016
>Noizi
That is a nice name.
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I had a lot of problems with this book. Overall, it felt very insincere and I was constantly distracted by how obviously everything was written with the goal of tugging on the reader's heart strings, rather than just letting things happen that were beautiful in spite of being sad. It felt like Mr. Green was screaming at me from the page 'ARE YOU SAD YET? YOU'RE SAD RIGHT? THIS IS SAD. YOU SHOULD FEEL ALL THE THINGS AND CRY ABOUT IT. I'M A GOOD WRITER. I WRITE FEELINGS. ARE YOU CRYING YET?' For a story about Human Beings, it doesn't feel very human at all. Instead everything feels very unnatural and self-conscious in the worst way.
The biggest and most impossible thing for me to get around was I simply didn't believe the character of Augustus or his relationship with main character Hazel. As these concepts are basically what the entire story hinges upon, I didn't believe in or care about anything else that happened either. Augustus came off completely pretentious and obnoxious, particularly in the way he insisted on speaking in a Diablo Cody nerd hipster sort of dialect that no one would ever use in the real world. (Some commenters here have said it's the way Mr. Green himself talks which, a.) way to be self-congratulatory, and b.) how does he not get punched in the face, like, ALL THE TIME?) His entire character felt contrived and I never once felt a connection with him. Too often it seemed like he was walking around like I AM SO CLEVER LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME, constantly putting on a show so that nothing from him felt genuine or real. His whole fascination with ultimately meaningless metaphors felt condescending, like Mr. Green constantly squealing HEY GUYS, SEE WHAT I DID THERE? TAKE A SECOND, WRITE IT DOWN IF YOU NEED TO. YEAH, I'M DEEP. Augustus' one fault was sickness, but it was nothing that he could control. And that's just so... boring.
But it wasn't just Augustus. The character of Hazel was somewhat likable, (despite Mr. Green's insistence on making her 'sound like a teenager' by formatting every other statement she makes like it's a question? and tacking distracting 'or whatever's onto the end of random bits of dialogue BECAUSE THIS IS HOW TEENAGERS TALK RIGHT? I CAN TALK LIKE A TEENAGER, SEE? BECAUSE THEY SAY 'WHATEVER'. I'M A GOOD WRITER. ARE YOU FEELING THINGS YET?) but her relationship with Augustus felt completely and totally forced. There was never any real reason for them to fall in love with one another, and that is crossing dangerously close into Twilight territory. He was so convienient, so effortless for Hazel. I had to wonder, was it him or was it because he was there and ready and willing? It all fell flat and left so many places to take the stories and facets of their characters completely unexplored.
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shitdick poopypants
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thanks for the new pasta
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>>9037991
all I remember is that both main characters were beyond pretentious, didn't talk like humans and the guy acted like a certified retard
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>500 word reading response due at 9 AM
>haven't even started
do I drop out or just kill myself
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Drop out by killing yourself?
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>4-page essay due on Thoreau tommorow
>I've electronically submitted it but haven't printed it out yet to give an additional hard copy to my teacher
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>>9037995
>haven't written my name on the cover of my finished dissertation yet
>due in less than a month
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>write poem
>it's a masterpiece
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same desuzoid
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I am gay
No longer
For you
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>>9037954
Is that El-P
Has a book ever made you mad? I was fuming while reading this shit desu.
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I'm on chapter 5 d e s u, what angers you? No spoilers please
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>>9038196
The way she acts like she has a hard life even though she's privileged as hell and doesn't even have to take care of her kids. She feels like she's a prisoner in her marriage even though her husband is chill as fuck.
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>>9038220
then she does a good job at being a woman. women try to go beyond hedonism (and fails)